Lizzy and the Cloud

by Terry Fan, Eric Fan, Terry Fan (Illustrator), Eric Fan (Illustrator)

Overview

Notes From Your Bookseller

Quintessential Fan Brothers. Exquisite, thought-provoking, whimsical yet somehow relatable. For anyone who fell in love with The Night Gardener or It Fell from the Sky. Lizzy and the Cloud is The Fan Brothers meets The Fan Brothers. A special read for every child and adult.

From the critically acclaimed, award-winning creators of Ocean Meets Sky and The Night Gardener comes a whimsical and sweet tale of a young girl who cares for her pet cloud as it grows.

It’s a little out of fashion to buy a pet cloud, but Lizzy doesn’t mind. She’s not looking for a big one or a fancy one, just one that’s right for her. And she finds it in Milo.

Soon, she’s taking Milo out on walks with her family, watering Milo right on schedule, and seeing Milo grow and grow. But what happens when her pet cloud gets too big for Lizzy to handle?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534483187
Publisher:	Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Publication date:	05/03/2022
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	56
Lexile:	AD620L (what's this?)
File size:	61 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Terry Fan received his formal art training at Ontario College of Art and Design in Toronto, Canada. His work is a blend of traditional and contemporary techniques, using ink or graphite mixed with digital. He spends his days (and nights) creating magical paintings, portraits, and prints. Terry is the cocreator of The Night Gardener, It Fell from the Sky, and Lizzy and the Cloud. Born in Illinois, he now lives in Toronto. Visit him online TheFanBrothers.com.

Eric Fan is an artist and writer who lives in Toronto, Canada. Born in Hawaii and raised in Toronto, he attended the Ontario College of Art and Design, where he studied illustration, sculpture, and film. He has a passion for vintage bikes, clockwork contraptions, and impossible dreams. Eric is the cocreator of The Night Gardener, It Fell from the Sky, and Lizzy and the Cloud. Visit him online TheFanBrothers.com.

Editorial Reviews

03/07/2022

Lizzy, a thoughtful light-skinned child with a mass of curly hair, lives with her parents on a previous era’s city street, where zeppelins hover and pigeons flock and oranges cost a penny. Even though “clouds were a bit out of fashion,” one Saturday at the park, Lizzy buys a cloud on a string from the umbrella-hatted Cloud Seller, who offers a range of puffy mists in various sizes and shapes. Lizzy names the cloud Milo, and tends it carefully, following the instructions in a single-page manual: watering it daily, walking it, and letting it soar out the window on its string. But Milo grows and grows, and it’s not long before a thunderstorm in Lizzy’s room nudges her toward the realization that Milo can’t remain pent-up; soon, she frees it with an air of quiet accomplishment. In delicate gray shading and faded colors, the Fan Brothers’ (It Fell from the Sky) dreamy, alternative world offers a vision of a different kind of pet, a being that obligingly rains on Lizzy’s plants (a small, faint rainbow hovering just beneath it), alongside an understated meditation on change and letting go. Ages 4–8. (May)

Publishers Weekly

"The Fan Brothers give an original tweak to the too-big-pet story line, often seen with dinosaurs, that will charm readers of all ages. The limited use of color—buttery yellow, cornflower blue, sherbet green—lends extra magic to the finely lined pencil drawings, especially where a faint rainbow glistens in the cloud’s mist. A sweet, imaginative tale."

5/1/22 - Booklist

"Sibling team the Fan Brothers (It Fell from the Sky) spin a gentle, dreamy story of caretaking and letting go in the surreally gorgeous picture book Lizzy and the Cloud.

This subtle, whimsical reflection on the caretaker relationship provides many openings for discussing growth and letting go."

05/13/2022 - Shelf Awareness for Readers

"The Fan Brothers give an original tweak to the too-big-pet story line, often seen with dinosaurs, that will charm readers of all ages. The limited use of color—buttery yellow, cornflower blue, sherbet green—lends extra magic to the finely lined pencil drawings, especially where a faint rainbow glistens in the cloud’s mist. A sweet, imaginative tale."

5/1/22 - Booklist